Everyone has heard of the
ghost in the machine, right? You know the one about the person who use to work
at your company who did something that had a major impact on the way things
work? Now everyone has to follow some rule or methodology just to make sure things
go as planned. Their legacy, good or bad permanently changed things forever. Well, today’s blog is a twist on that theme. We
explore the problems that occur as the result of employees being fired or put
out to pasture. Like it or not, having
to deal with the digital footprints left by former staffers can be problematic
to say the least. In the best case
scenario, someone needs to be assigned to pick up where they left off in areas
such as social networking, file management and even online security. In the worst case, former employees have been
known to rifle their employer’s server, plant malware or even lock their former
bosses out of their own systems. Before
you start experiencing digital things that go bump in the night, let’s take a
hard look at a number of cases involving the ghosts of employees past.

Terminated Employee Turns Terminator

In 2010,
a major defense contractor (Lockheed) had its email system crashed for six
hours after one terminated employee sent 60,000 coworkers a personal email
laced with malware. The contractor was then forced to fly in a Microsoft rescue
squad to repair the damage.

Bear in mind that the defense
contractor, the publisher and the engineering firm were all major players that
had in their employ teams of skilled programmers and technicians whose job it
was to safeguard their electronic assets.
If they’re vulnerable to attack by former insiders, what do you think
that says about the cyber security of smaller firms?

“An unhappy ex-employee who
was made redundant, hacked into his bosses email and sent obscene messages to
the senior management team and the company

board.”

“A disgruntled ex-employee
posted a listing for 'free household and garage contents', quoting his
former boss's address. The listing claimed the homeowners were moving to
Puerto Rico and didn't want to keep anything. The ad indicated anyone
could come down and take whatever they want. Investigators say the listing
gave directions to the home, and even provided the garage code.”

“An angry employee who was
given 4 weeks notice used the company credit card to get a year’s supply
of 'male enhancement' pills delivered to a variety of senior staff
around the office.”

Are you starting to detect a
pattern here? Hell hath no fury like an
employee burned. Terminated employees
have been known to do everything from destroying equipment or a company’s
reputation, to taking out their frustration on bosses or coworkers who they
feel were responsible for their downfall.
In today’s wired world, it’s all too easy for anyone to talk trash
online. Worse is when an ex-employee has
uncovered a boss or coworker’s password in order to make it seem as though the
victim is the one who was talking trash.

While terminating an employee
is always an unpleasant task, it is important to remember that not all those
who are fired are going to take the matter lying down. The problem is that while most businesses
have some form of hiring manual, I have yet to see a company create a firing
manual. Aside from brushing off the
psychological shock to the system that being terminated has on most people, the
majority of HR departments in businesses large and small as a rule shrug off creating
procedures that can mitigate the damage likely to be caused by former
employees.

It goes without saying that all
companies need to have a policy manual spelling out employee conduct and also
have a plan in place that deals with both good and bad employee conduct. It not
only need to spell out what the negative behaviors are, but what to do when an
employee is acting in a negative way. I suggest that any time an employee steps
out of line, that an entry of their behavior be recorded in the file and that
they be brought in for review and then be put on probation. This review needs
to spell out the consequences and it is at this point (way before eSabotage can
take place) that safeguards be put in place to protect the company and monitor
the employee further. Have a plan to try and improve the performance. Your Discipline needs to be progressive in
nature. You also have to make sure you are not firing anyone because of age,
sex, race, religion, disability or national origin because doing so can lead to
a very expensive lawsuit. You cannot fire someone for revenge for exposing your
behavior as well. Also employee policies
cannot be cherry picked or selectively enforced in any way, this too can lead
to a law suit. Make sure you have a consensus of all departments and those
depended on that employees work. Understand the full consequences of firing
that person. Once you have covered all your bases from a policy and procedure
aspect, make sure you now look at your IT security and other data vulnerabilities.

Take Care of These Top Five Security Risks

Here are the top 5 items that
need to be addressed before any employee is given his or her walking papers:

1.How much access does the employee have to the
company’s servers and intranet?

2.What kind of company communication is the employee
privy to?

3.Does the employee have a company-issued smartphone,
tablet or laptop?

4.How long will it take you to change or delete all
related company passwords?

5.What email lists, customer lists and company intranets
does the employee have access?

While every company
automatically restricts an ex-employees access to the company’s premises and
bank accounts, you’d be surprised to learn how few conduct an audit of all the
electronic means through which an employee can gain access to potentially
disruptive technology. Don’t find out
the hard way like the folks who manage Chicago O’Hare Airport. In September
2014, more than 2,000 flights were cancelled and pandemonium ensued when an
employee who was facing a transfer, sabotaged the air traffic control center
after posting a suicide note on Facebook.

“Authorities say a contract employee started a
fire Friday morning in the basement of a control center in the Chicago suburb
of Aurora and then attempted to commit suicide by slashing his throat. Brian
Howard, 36, of Naperville, was charged with destruction of aircraft or aircraft
facilities, a felony. The FBI said Howard remains hospitalized and no court
date has been scheduled.”

“As of midday Saturday, total Chicago flight
cancelations for the day stood at more than 700 — still a damagingly high number,
but an improvement. Southwest Airlines, the dominant carrier at Midway, had
hoped to resume a full flight schedule Saturday, but had to cancel all flights
between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. CDT.”

“Lines remained long at O'Hare, which is a major
U.S. hub. Many travelers stranded overnight slept on cots provided by the
airport, in scenes reminiscent of winter storm disruptions.”

Neither the FBI nor the TSA had any comment to make
regarding the incident. Republican
Senator Mark Kirk had this to say:

"Chicago O'Hare International Airport
cannot be brought to a screeching halt.
I want to see not only an immediate review by the FAA of the screening
process at the Chicago Air Route Traffic Control Center in Aurora, but also a report
within 30 days outlining changes the FAA will make to prevent any one
individual from having this type of impact on the heart of the United States
economy."

The moral of the story is
that even after spending billions of dollars to keep out terrorists and
hijackers, all it took to shut down one of the world’s busiest airports was a
disgruntled employee with a gas can and a match. With that in mind, if you own or manage a
business that hires and fires, you need to take steps to ensure your firm isn’t
blindsided by the ghosts of employees past.

In
this article I have explored many of the dangers businesses inherited when they
adopted the electronic rich internet connected world we live in today. Since
all companies have some form of electronic infrastructure, all are vulnerable
in some way to electronic Sabotage (eSabotage). This article provides many
examples of how employees who were fired created mass havoc for the companies
they left by sabotaging that companies email systems and servers. Many links
and details are provided for the reader to explore this subject further.

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Is there a robot or android in your future? More importantly, what
will the ultimate effect on society be once robots start taking over. How will what has until now, been a unique human experience change? Until recently, robots, (aka androids for star Trek fans or droids for Star Wars fans) have for the most
part been relegated to factories and the living room rug. But all that is about
to change. A number of firms are currently making robots that are designed to
work alongside us in warehouses, retail establishments and offices. More
importantly, as these droids become more autonomous, will they slowly but
surely push their human counterparts out of the picture altogether? Will their growing
intelligence become a threat to the human species itself, as a number of
scientists believe? Whether human beings embrace these automated assistants as
a boon, or people begin to rage against the machines that were meant to help them, is still too soon to tell. Love them or hate them, join me today as I
take a look at the rise of the robots in the 21st century.

Contrary to popular opinion, robots are hardly what one
would call a recent invention. As far
back as 350 B.C., robots have been a reality.
That’s when the Greek mathematician Archytas crafted a mechanical pigeon
that got its motive power via steam. The
middle ages saw a number of automata created, including a robotic musical band
to an automated waitress that would serve drinks. Leonardo DaVinci himself drew up detailed
plans for a mechanized medieval knight.
Although it was never built, other imitators took delight in creating a
number of “machines” that were designed to mystify and delight royalty and
commoner alike.

The chief difference between these early automata and
todays robots was chiefly due to the fact that with notable exceptions, these
robots were only intended to mimic the living creatures around them. They were never designed to carry out the
tasks that these living creatures performed.
That all changed in 1801, when Joseph Jacquard built a totally automated
loom that was programmed with punched cards.
While this innovation represented the earliest form of software, the
punch card was still being used to program computers more than 200 years later.

It wasn’t until the advent of World War II that the
digital computer was first created by Alan Turing to help the Allies beat the
German Enigma code machine. Fifteen
years after the end of the war, it was also Turing that published the book
Computing Machinery and Intelligence, in which he postulated a test that was designed
to determine whether a machine had attained the power of intelligent thought. It became known as the Turing Test and to
date no robot has yet passed the test.

That does not mean that the rise of robot intelligence has not
progressed. Since the 1960’s when the
first industrial robots were introduced, automation has continued to make
inroads in the industry. Today’s auto
factories are 90% robotized. Amazon
warehouses continue to become more automated.
(They are lobbying the FAA to let them use drones to deliver
packages.) Yet with the exception of big
business, few of us work cheek to jowl with robots in the office. Sure, you might see a Roomba Robot scurrying
across the office floor in search of those ever elusive dust bunnies. But at this juncture, if you have a secretary
or office assistant, he or she is made of flesh and blood.

BeamPro Gives Remote
Orders a New Meaning

While teleconferencing has been reducing the need for busy executives to
fly the friendly sky, until recently the conferences were relegated to
conference rooms and boardrooms. But an
enterprising company called Suitable Technologies
recently introduced a 5-foot tall rolling robot called BeamPro that takes
teleconferencing to the streets. (Or, at least the hallway.) Think of BeamPro like a tablet pc on wheels,
because that is essentially what it is.
The bot allows busy executives the ability not only to interface with
far flung colleagues and employees, but it provides mobility that enables said
executives to roam the halls of an office across town or around the world. Equipped with webcam and speakers, BeamPro is
kind of like a corporate nanny cam on steroids, since it not only allows the
boss to keep watch on his staff, but it also enables the executive to interface
with and direct the action of far flung staffers.

While this bot threatens to undermine the “While the boss is away, the
staff will play” mentality prevalent at many offices, it is still a far cry
from replacing said staff. Nor does it
assist the current staff in performing their duties. (Unless having a full-time
robotic office Nazi can be considered helpful to overworked and underpaid
employees.) However, that doesn’t mean
that help isn’t on the way.

Baxter and His
Buddies Can Work Along Your Side

While office automation has come a long way, that doesn’t mean you can
order a robotic office assistant that can take a letter. But there is a robot made by Rethink Robotics
named Baxter that could put a new face on your shipping department… literally.

Check out Baxter on Youtube

Where science fiction has usually characterized robots as replacing
their human counterparts, Baxter is actually designed to work alongside
them. If you have ever seen automated
factories where robots are kept like caged animals that are too dangerous to be
allowed near their flesh and blood coworkers, Baxter was designed from the
ground up to be user (and human) friendly. The homepage at RethinkRobotics.com sums it up as
follows,

“If you walk the floor of your facility and see lightweight
parts being handled near people, you’ve likely just found a great job for
Baxter. This smart, collaborative robot is ready to get to work for your
company – doing the monotonous tasks that free up your skilled human labor to
be exactly that. Baxter is safe to operate next to in production environments,
without the need for caging – saving money and valuable floor space. Baxter deploys quickly and connects
seamlessly to other automation – often without third party integration. With Baxter, no traditional programming is
required. Instead, it’s manually trainable by in-house staff, reducing the time
and cost of third party programmers.”

Designed with a “Monkey see, monkey do” programming
subroutine where employees literally show Baxter how to accomplish a task, this
in one easy-to-employ bot. At a base
price of $25,000, and his one-armed counterpart Sawyer could be just the ticket
for etailers and cottage industry production facilities that perform a lot of
repetitive tasks involved in everything from packaging and material handling to
machine tending and line loading. Still,
with their limited mobility, tinker toy looking appendages and industrial
demeanor, even these handy droids are unlikely to give your receptionist a run
for her money any time soon.

Here
Come the Humanoid Droids

What most of us are waiting (or dreading) to arrive are
robots that can walk, talk and act a little more like a human being. DARPA recently completed its Robotics
Challenge where teams of human robotics experts competed for millions of
dollars in prizes. Their task was to
create ambulatory robots that were required to complete a number of disaster
response tasks, including driving a rescue vehicle, walking through rubble,
climbing stairs and turning valves.
Twenty three teams from around the world fielded robots and three teams
shared $3.5 million in prize money, including South Korea’s Team Kaist and
two teams from the US, IHMC Robotics and Tartan Rescue.

Check out the DARPA Challenge Winners

No matinee idols by any stretch of
the imagination, while these robots can move like a human, their looks assure
this writer that if you weren’t completely incapacitated, these robotic
rescuers would in all likelihood scare most of us to death.

The Cute Robots Prize Goes to?

While most research has gone into
giving robots the ability to walk and talk like people, few have given
aesthetics much thought. However, there
are a couple of notable exceptions such as motor car manufacturer Honda that
has been working diligently on a lively little bipedal droid that while not
exactly cute as a button, does have a persona less derivative of an industrial
monstrosity.

Check out Asimos Latest video on YouTube

Able to walk, talk, run, climb stairs
and as President Obama discovered during a trip to Japan, kick a soccer ball,
this lively little android has been under development for nearly 20 years. Unlike the industrial manipulators that most
bots come equipped, Asimo’s “hands” have four fingers and a thumb just like you
and I. Looking like a 4’3” astronaut,
replete with backpack, this humanoid robot is not currently for sale
commercially. However, the little guy
has become something of a robot ambassador, having travelled to and performed
in dozens of countries worldwide. http://asimo.honda.com/

I’m a Pepper, You’re a Pepper – Wait What’s a Pepper?

More importantly, while Asimo may be
a giant step in robot evolution, he is still not something you are likely to
introduce to your parents. That’s where
Pepper comes in. Designed with an
emotional engine that has been designed to read everything from body language
to voice inflection, this little robot is even cuter than Asimo. Better still, the little droid has been
designed with a specific purpose in mind, to be a companion. While Pepper can’t climb stairs, it is still
able to roll around on wheels set into its base. More importantly, Pepper is for sale, at
least in Japan, for around $1,600 + $200/month in service fees. Created
by Softbank and backed by Foxconn Technology Group and Alibaba, when Pepper
was put on sale on June 20, 1,000 units were sold in the first minute, forcing
Softbank to suspend sales.

Here Softbank's latest video on Pepper in Japan

Before you reach for your wallet, you
also need to understand what Pepper can and can’t do. While the little droid can hold a
conversation, react to your emotions and respond autonomously, he doesn’t cook,
clean or vacuum the rugs. He has one and
only one task and that is to be a companion.
However, that doesn’t mean he can’t earn his keep. Softbank mobile, one of the prime cellphone
operators in Japan, as well as Pepper’s creator, have been employing him in
their retail outlets as a greeter. Last
year, another Japanese firm, Nestle Japan “employed” Pepper in its appliance
stores in order to sell Nescafe coffee machines. Said, Nestle Japan’s CEO Kohzoh Takaoka,

"Pepper will be able to explain Nescafe products and
services and engage in conversation with consumers.”

Beginning this fall,
Softbank and its marketing partners are expected to roll out a special business
model of the robot named, “Pepper for Biz.”
The success of Softbank’s initial rollout has also propelled a number of
other entrepreneurs into the game. How
long will it be before you can purchase or lease a NannyBot to mind your kids
or your elderly parents? With the
government’s increased use of drones and warbots, can it be all that far off
before security droids come to a warehouse near you? And it would seem like child’s play to craft
robotic lawnmowers that roll out of a truck to tend to your lawn.

Let’s face it, once the
robotic genie is let out of the bottle, there will be no way to put it
back. This means that robots intended to
“assist” us will soon transmogrify into androids that can replace us. As the units get more sophisticated and
autonomous, will it be long before jobs currently being performed by humans are
taken over by robots? Or worse, how long
will it be before robots reach a point in understanding deemed a singularity by
researchers, at which point they will become self-aware. A number of notable scientists and
industrialists, including Stephen Hawking and Elon Musk have warned that once
robots become on par with humans on an intellectual level, there is a real
possibility that they will decide that they no longer require or desire to
share the planet with their human counterparts.

Also, there is a real
danger that once people begin to be replaced in the workplace by robots they could
well rise up to picket and boycott the companies that formerly employed
them. I could see protest marches and
civil disobedience taking place as people become displaced and dispossessed. Political and religious leaders will be
mobilized to thwart this inhuman form of slavery. I can see the headlines now, “Al Sharpton
takes on AI.”

My point is that
robotics and artificial intelligence are going to be the mother of all
two-edged swords that the wired world will soon be forced to deal with. Whether the verdict will ultimately be bot
buddies or robot rage is still too early to compute. But if Terry Gou of Foxconn and Jack Ma of
Alibaba are right, robots could soon be as important as the automobile in the
coming decades. That means we’ll all
have to deal with the debate regarding robot rights a lot
sooner than you think.

In this article I have
explored some of the benefits and threats that robotic brings to the human
experience. I discuss many of the current contenders that are looking to help humans
cope with various issues or possibly even replace humans in the workplace. Links
and details are provided for the reader to explore this subject further.

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Is your
body letting you down? How much time out of your daily schedule do you relinquish
for exercise? Are you tired of moving heaven
and earth to support that bag of chemicals and water we call our bodies? Do
you wish you could enhance your senses or even add new capabilities to your
existing body? While this used to be the realm of science fiction only a
few years ago, current and rapidly emerging technologies allow you to repair,
replace or enhance that old bag of bones here and now. In this week's
Working the Web to Win blog, I will take you into the lab to explore bio-tech
that is being used to repair, replace or enhance human beings. I will
also introduce you to a new cult of devotees who are ready, willing and able to
undergo painful medical procedures to take the cyborg plunge and bio-hack their
way to a better life.

Now
I know what you’re thinking. Only a few people are actually augmenting their bodies
with these cybernetic implants and the like. Well, I disagree. The reality is humans
have been augmenting our bodies for thousands of years. The way I see it - human
augmentation falls into three categories. The first level wearables or attachable
items. A partial list of items would include; clothing, shoes, hearing aids, eyeglasses, false teeth, binoculars, bicycles, watches, activity trackers, and environmental
suits (scuba, space, exosuits etc.). The second level of augmentation includes items like
implanted teeth, eye lens, joint implants, and regular prosthetics etc. … The last
level includes such items as limb replacements with smart prosthetics, smart mechanical
organs, biologically enhanced organs and more sophisticated, smart versions of level one and two augmentations
like strength and speed enhancing exosuits.

The name Steve Haworth isn’t exactly a household word. At least not yet. Unlike the other two Steve’s of Apple Computer
fame, Steve Haworth has not yet achieved the level of rock star geek status that
Jobs and Woz did. But he could well be on
his way. That’s because he is one of the
pioneers of body modification who routinely performs surgery on people looking to
add enhancements to their body. Since he
is not a board certified surgeon, this means that these procedures are done without
the aid of anesthetic, unless you count ice.

Although Haworth’s family has long been associated with medical device engineering,
Steve cut his teeth in the 90’s by dabbling with body piercing, 3D tattoos and something
called the Metal Mohawk. (You can’t make
this stuff up folks.) Fast forward fifteen
years and Steve’s modifications are now more sci-fi than technopunk. One of the enhancements that Steve routinely performs
is the surgical implantation of rare earth magnets. Now I know what you’re thinking, “Why would anybody
pay to get turned into a refrigerator magnet?”

Well, it’s a little more complicated than that. While Steve and other bio-hacking enthusiasts
have posted videos which show them moving metal objects with the
magnetic field generated by their enhanced digits, apparently there is another
side effect of the procedure. Apparently
this enhancement also provides the recipient with a virtual Spidey sense that allows
them to perceive magnetic fields. For
$350 you too can experience the pulse of electric motors, junction boxes, high tension
wires and any device that imparts a magnetic field.

Of course, there are more ways to enhance your senses than by simply implanting
magnets. Adventurous people have implanted
everything from RFID chips that allows them to control nearby devices, turn on and
off the lights, not to mention open their garage door without the use of a clicker. There is another popular procedure called Southpaw
that involves the implantation of a compass that in essence turns you into a homing
pigeon by letting you sense kinesthetically when you are facing north. (I should probably get one of these for my mother,
since she is terrible when it comes to following directions.)

You can also have computer chips implanted that sense your biometric data,
turning you into the human equivalent of a FitBit. Others have had led lights implanted beneath their
skin, turning them into a cross between a tattoo and a casino marquis. While most of the devices are tiny, I have seen
at least one adventurous lad named Ted Cannon, who had a device the size of a smartphone
implanted beneath the skin of his forearm.
You can view
his video interview on his blog which also show the implanted device in his
arm (Just make sure you haven’t eaten
recently.)

Aside from “DIYborgs”, there are also apparently “eyeborgs”, a la “Geordi
LaForge” of Star Trek
fame. This was the
character in the Next Generation series played by LeVar Burton. Having been born blind, “Geordi” sported a pair
of high tech spectacles that not only permitted him to see, he could see light spectra
that no human eye could, including infrared, ultraviolet and radio waves. While today’s version of Star Trek tech isn’t
quite as extraordinary as that of “Geordi LaForge”, it’s getting there. Scientists have already reverse-engineered the
retina and created an app that not only reproduces its operation, but it allows
a camera to be connected through the optic nerve. In principle, this enhancement could be used to
augment the tiny fraction of the light spectrum we currently are able to see. Holy x-ray vision, Batman! (Another group in England is conducting experiments
with an implantable lens that can not only provide perfect 20/20 vision to all you
who wear glasses, but they claim the lens even provides a zoom capability.)

Not so Happy - Happy Meal
With DIY?

On the other side of the coin, there are people who are so unconcerned with
appearances that they will risk ridicule, or even worse, to possess enhanced abilities. One of these acolytes is Steve Mann, who has become
something of a biohacking legend since he was forcibly ejected from a McDonald’s
restaurant in Paris France when he walked into the establishment sporting what amounts
to a DIY version of Google Glass. The chief
difference was that Steve Mann’s glasses were bolted to his head. Referred to as the “Father of Wearable Computing,”
he has been making a techno fashion statement for years.

While much of the biohacking scene has been taking place in basements and
back alleys, that doesn’t mean that the phenomenon hasn’t garnered academic attention. One notable is Captain Cyborg, otherwise known
as Kevin Warwick, professor of cybernetics at Coventry University. Ina 2013 interview in Forbes Magazine that took place in Warwick’s office, which
writer Emma Byrne described as “a cross between a toyshop and Tony Stark’s basement,”
the professor was asked which project he was most proud.

“No question, it would have to be when I hooked up with my wife.” He’s not talking about dating: In 2002, he and
his wife Irena installed matching implants that recorded signals from their central
nervous systems. They were able to correctly
identify each other’s nerve signals around 98% of the time.

“Sam Morse, the inventor of Morse code, talked about brain-to-brain communication. He sorted out the distance, but he still needed
that physical interface, the finger on the key.
Over the years we’ve made loads of improvements in bandwidth and distance,
but we still haven’t got past the interface problem.”

Like Steve Haworth’s rare earth magnets, the brain-to-brain interface
Dr. Warwick shared with his wife was more akin to a sixth sense than mere
communication. (How many men reading
this would love to never be asked again what they are thinking by their
wives?) More significantly, it’s this extrasensory
perception that has Warwick and other researchers interested in exploring the possibilities
yet further. When asked about the possibilities
as well as the perils in experimenting with the human body, Warwick replied,

“When Alexander Graham Bell made the first phone call, at first people couldn’t
see the point in what he was doing. What’s
the point of the first phone? But it didn’t
stop there. I think what I’m doing is like
that. Maybe when I’ve been dead ten years
people will go, ‘Oh! That’s what that was for.’
What you do in terms of prizes and degrees and all that – that’s absolutely
nothing. It’s when you do something no one’s
done before. When you push it, that’s what’s
exciting.”

While that may hold true, advances in augmentation from science and medicine
like joint replacement and heart transplantation moved us forward, these new augmentations
may very well become commonplace in the near future. Having seen and become aware
of this trend, I can’t help thinking that somewhere the ghost of Mary Shelley is
spinning in her grave saying - “It’s Alive!”

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In this
article I have explored how cybernetic augmentation is no longer only in the realm
of science fiction – but instead, are part of modern day fact. I have provided many
specific examples of cybernetic augmentation that is taking place right now in the
world. Humans have been augmenting our capabilities for thousands of years. What
started out as humans adding furs to improve our survival rate has continue today
with cybernetic augmentation - including new implants and smart limb replacements
- a la the Borg of Star Trek Fame.

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